[Teacher317]

Women can and do physically abuse men from time to time... but it is psychological abuse that is their forte, their specialty, their bread-and-butter. Everyone knows that most women will remember every detail of anything mistake, misspoken word, or misstep, to bring it up later... far in the future, when you're down, when it will hurt the most. They are typically brought up early on in intense competition with most other viable females around them, often including family and friends, and they rarely seem to give any quarter when they sense psychological weakness in a perceived opponent. They are rather feline in the joy they get from toying with "lesser animals". It is sad that simply because their usual attacks leave no visible bruising, it is assumed that male physical abuse is more prevalent, problematic, and deserving of attention.

There's a reason the old saying is "beware of a woman scorned", and nothing about "beware of man".

[Mila]

“There’s a reason the old saying is “beware of a woman scorned”, and nothing about “beware of man”.

I can only wonder what inspired Kipling to write this.

The Female of the Species
1911
Rudyard Kipling

WHEN the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man,
He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can.
But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws,
They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws.
’Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Man’s timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say,
For the Woman that God gave him isn’t his to give away;
But when hunter meets with husband, each confirms the other’s tale—
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.